Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:

OpenOffice is a Java application. Therefore it will always be slow,
hungry for resources and never become a succes. The original
Staroffice was distributed as a binary. Sun messed it up big time by
choosing Java which is already a sinking ship.

I believe you are referring to Sun's office application suite, which is
'StarOffice'.

StarOffice is a version of OpenOffice. Most of the development happens at Sun, so it is expected that StarOffice (which is a paid product) is better somehow.

StarOffice was originally a German product that included its own desktop; Sun purchased StarDivision and cleaned up the software.

Your speed (or lack of it) might have something to do with your O/S
and/or the particular Java runtime you have installed.

I find it not too fast. And for some tasks Excel is a lot faster - even the OpenOffice programmers agree.

That doesn't mean the product is not good or usable.

One neat trick? open an MS-Word document and save it in OpenDocument or whatever OpenOffice uses. Rename that file to .zip and unzip it. Find the XML base document, and all the embedded pictures as usable separate files!


Thomas
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